Program Summer Semester 2024
EVERY WEDNESDAY 17.00-18.30
In this 1.5 hour session you are invited to engage with different artists work in a physical and practiced based way.
Program Winter Semester 2023
Good News, night strollers – no more suffering – only joy!
Join the APL Morning Practices – now in the evening
and get to know different performance practices and artists active in the field!
Enjoy!
*The Morning Practices 2023 are curated by Asher O’Gorman and Barbis Ruder.
Schedule
Wed. 11.10.23 & Wed. 18.10.23 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
mirabella paidamwoyo* dziruni: OWNING & HONORING MYSELF
INFO: In this workshop, we will practice different ways of grounding and expressing ourselves. Breathing ourselves into an elevated state of self-awareness, listening to what it is we desire in the here and now, dancing, moving, performing and expressing these embodied sensations. So let’s gather, to celebrate each other and to practice owning & honoring ourselves with whatever, whoever and however we are. All feelings are welcomed!
ABOUT: My interdisciplinary artistic practice focuses on empowerment and collaborative healing processes. Inspired by everyday life experiences, de-colonial and anti-racist methods are used and elaborated to take up space in diverse public and private spaces, with non-binary, queer, Black aesthetics. Moving bodies, self-presentation and continuous energy exchange as well as painting, styling and sculpture are the main components for these complex creations, representing visible signs of change.
WEB: www.mirabellapaidamwoyo.org
Wed. 25.10.23 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Michael Turinsky: ACCESS EXCESS
INFO:
After sharing my own perspective on crip, choreography and excess, we’ll proceed with a warm-up focused on irregular breathing, shaking and slow shifting of weight. This will then lead us into an open score in which we’ll explore performative tools and qualities like repetition, self-exposure, slight inappropriateness and re-configuration of space.
ABOUT: Michael Turinsky is a Vienna-based, disabled artist and theoretician, working at the intersection of contemporary dance and performance, disability, and political as well as aesthetic theory. Academically trained as a philosopher at the University of Vienna, Michael began diving into the world of inclusive dance in 2006. Later questioning the notion of inclusion, Michael coined his own term ‘crip choreography’ to designate his unique artistic practice of engaging the specific, resistant materiality of the body in processes of subverting, de-organizing and re-organizing dominant forms and qualities of movement. Recently, he has also become interested in what fellow disabled artists have termed the ‘aesthetics of access,’ as well as in exploring the intricate relationship between dance and ecology.
Wed. 8.11.23 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Katherina Senzenburger: A LIQUID GAZE – tools for practicing performance
INFO:
A liquid gaze aims to blur the binary subject:object power dynamic a performing body can face. In the understanding that performance is ultimately about entering into a relationship with an audience, this class explores the gaze as a central tool to mold and negotiate that relationship. Placing one’s body on stage (in a wide definition of that term) can be a vulnerable act, especially when we work within the context of desire. Observing, witnessing, challenging, enduring, inviting, rejecting, avoiding, misleading, redirecting, etc. – different gazes evoke different spaces. Through embodied improvisational scores as well as through choreographic material from my archive, we will embrace the potential sluts we can all become.
ABOUT: Katharina Senzenberger (they/them) is a choreographer and performing artist based between Germany and Austria. An interest for dance in the digital age and in the hypersexualized world of popular culture, the affective potenial of movement and states of transformation and liquification connect the various works which range from stage performances, to site-specific works to film.
WEB: @katharsisbaby | https://vimeo.com/user72203157
Wed. 15.11.23 & Wed. 22.11.23 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Bita Bell: A dance manifesto of hope and fury
INFO: Inspired by dancing with Pussy Riot and thinking with the words of Mona Eltahawy’s Why The Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, we move through movement explorations that bring us closer to understanding and empowering our bodies in relation to our memories and experiences of state, street, and home.
ABOUT: Bita Bell is a dance artist and composer working through auto-historia, fragmented memories, collective imaginations, visceral sensations, radical softness, and playful improvisations, while exposing, questioning, and subverting social-political matters that disrupt the joy in daily life.
WEB: www.bitabell.com | https://vimeo.com/bitabell
Wed. 29.11.23 & Wed. 6.12.23 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Artist: Melanie Maar: Come and Go – transientness in art, soma and sensxuality
INFO: In these sessions I invite us into a practice of staying for our desires and dissolves at constant play. We work with various subtle forms of intimacy in individual, partner and group exercises around touch, presence, attention, sense-based movement, living boundaries and performative awareness.
ABOUT: Working as a performer, choreographer, teacher and art-life escort born in Vienna, Melanie has spent the last three decades polishing her stone mostly in New York City. There she received the Artist Award from the NY Foundation for Contemporary Arts and now here she also works with people in private practice through Somatic Sexology.
WEB: www.melaniemaar.com, @Melanie Maar
Wed. 13.12.23n & Wed. 20.12.23 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Felix Helmut Wagner: Let’s shine a light on our inner “monsters”!
INFO: In this morning practice, I invite us to get in touch with our inner “monsters”. In a safe environment, we will explore, release, and play with our “monsters” through conversation and methods of visual and performing arts. Let’s experience the liberation of having nothing to hide in an accepting community.
ABOUT: Felix Helmut Wagner is a visual artist, civil engineer, and performer. His performances, performative installations, and video works mix principles of scientific modelling with narrative methods of theater. He explores the basic question “How do humans describe themselves and the world around them?” and how can this description be questioned and reinterpreted. On this journey of discovery, the greatest possible openness and the question “Why not?” is the guiding principle.
WEB: https://www.felixhelmutwagner.com
Wed. 10.01.24 & Wed. 17.01.24 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Claire Lefèvre: Exhausted sluts unite!
INFO: In these sessions we will explore what emotional labor and care work mean in the context of performance making and learn about recovery practices, consent led dramaturgies, horizontal feedback and slutty somatic techniques. Sensual knowledge becomes a tool against burn out culture, because a good slut is a rested slut <3
ABOUT: Claire is a femme choreographer, insomniac writer, and reality TV enthusiast currently based in Vienna, Austria. She likes to think of herself as a hostess, welcoming collaborators and audience members into kitsch landscapes where politics and poetics are gently interwoven.
WEB: www.clairelefevre.com @clairelefevre.heartemoji
Wed. 15.3. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Jasmin Schaitl: Anchoring the Past in the Present – moving memories within us
INFO: In this session we will be diving into re-activating and haptically re-creating a past memory that brought, and will continue to bring you lightness and warmth.
ABOUT: Schaitl is a visual artist, performer and researcher. Performance, sculpture, video and photography are media through which she is looking at the co-dependencies of presence and absence and questions what is, and what remains present or absent. She is researching on the intersection of materiality, haptics and memory within performative and participatory practices.
WEB: www.jasminschaitl.com
Wed. 22.3. 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm
APL Performance Studio
Bita Bell: Negotiations with Gravity
INFO: negotiations with gravity: starting with a somatics session based on ideas from Alexander Technique (anatomy) and Reiki (energy). I facilitate a consensual hands-on partnerwork and then finally move towards an improvisation focused on internal sensations and the mapping of body interrelations through Bartenieff Fundamental Patterns of Total Body Connectivity.
ABOUT: Bita Bell is a dance artist and composer with a BA in music composition and a MFA in dance.
She mainly works with improvisation in both dance and music while exposing, questioning, and subverting social-political matters that disrupt the joy in daily life.
WEB: https://bitabell.com/works/
Wed. 29.3 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Maria Shurkhal: Self-Care Workshop
INFO: Self-care workshop is a proposition to examine the Foucauldian idea of
the practice of freedom in a practical setting. The notion is derived from the Greco-Roman philosophy where freedom is a way of taking care of oneself – of knowing oneself and of reflective application of this knowledge. This practice of freedom is not possible through self-renunciation and self-instrumentalization, quite on the contrary – it calls for an exercise of the dancer’s agency.
ABOUT: Maria is a Ukrainian artist living and working in Vienna and engaged in the field of Performing Arts as a creator, researcher, and educator. She is currently a Dance researcher in the FWF project Smooth Spaces at the University of Music and Performing arts Vienna and works with the topics of agency, labor, and experimental models of collaborative practices.
WEB: https://www.mshurkhal.com/
Wed. 19.4. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Mzamo Nondlwana: Collecitve Future Happening
INFO: A movement research practice. What I am currently working on is the idea of collective healing and politics of affection. I am interested in healing as a radical practice, healing not only in isolation but in community. The workshop speaks to anyone who imagines a future of coming together and healing. It is a ceremonial practice for our future collectively
ABOUT: Mzamo Nondlwana (they/them) is a queer non-binary performing artist originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. Their work focuses on marginalized bodies and an attempt to subvert colonial fantasy. They are also one half of a Dj collective Bicha Boo which is an audio-visual performative collective since 2017
Wed. 26.4. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Felix Helmut Wagner: What is an object? What is a person? A performative and intellectual deconstruction of concepts.
INFO: Together we practice, in a performative and intellectual way, to recognize and question the automated codes in our thought. Let us step together into the fascinating world of conceptlessness.
ABOUT: Felix Helmut Wagner is a visual artist, civil engineer, and performer. His performances, performative installations, and video works mix principles of scientific modelling with narrative methods of theater.
WEB: https://www.felixhelmutwagner.com
Wed. 3.5. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Katharina Senk: interdepending bodies
INFO: In her practice Katharina proposes playful exercises to encounter the concept of interdependence from a physical and embodied dimension.
It’s a practice of doing, connecting and feeling into the mutual dependence between human to human and human to more-than-human encounters.
ABOUT: Katharina Senk a.k.a. Senki is a Vienna-based dance-artist who is in love with sharing movement on and off-stage and with the magic moments collective sweating can create.
In her personal artistic practice Senki looks for ways to join her interests in Posthumanism, Intersectional Feminism and Pleasure with her knowledge from the fields of Dance, Martial-Arts and movement.
WEB: www.katharinasenk.com instagram: @senk.i
Wed. 10.5. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Daria Lytvynenko: Unrolled Tongues
INFO: Daria is a Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist who mainly works with performance, video and installation. By approaching the audience mostly in a provocative manner – she invites to re-think complexities of political and intimate spheres by creating a multi-functional narrative around and within a human body.
ABOUT: Invitation to join a conversation on a role of humor as a tool for dealing with heavy socio-political topics. Group practice which aims to heal and find new qualities of movement within individual and communal bodymind through laughter.
IG: @darialytvynenko
Wed. 17.5. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Costas Kekis: Bounce
INFO: I will be sharing some input from my last group work ‘Bounce’ working on practices of sensing and orienting in a group setting. The goal of the creative process of ‘Bounce’ has been to generate tools for social and personal repair through embodiment of senses enriched with fiction,imagination and phantasy.
ABOUT: Costas works as a performer, choreographer and outside eye for dance productions in Vienna and abroad. In his creative processes he attempts to embody concepts embedding personal and social reflections through intense physical work and improvisation viewed through a queer lense and enriched with imagination and personal fictions.
WEB: www.costaskekis.com
Wed. 24.5. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Meeting Point: APL Performance Studio – going OUTSIDE
Verena Schneider: MOVING IN RELATION
INFO: Creating a multifunctional and open environment for physical supportive practice in relation to the space and the people around me; care is included.
The practices includes physical actions & elements of bodily support to each other coming from contemporary circus and using the environment in order to explore in a playful mood different relation to the others and oneself. How does the space shapes the movement and how can different body support each other, merge and explore different relations through movement.
ABOUT: Verena Schneider is an acro-dancer, performer and handstandartist and curator and is based between Vienna and Toulouse. She has been pursuing a hybrid practice of handstand, acrobatics, and dance since her studies of circus arts in Italy and France.
With the desire to carry out her own productions and to work in the field of interdisciplinary performance art, she founded the Vienna-based cultural association
WEB: www.verenaschneider.org www.verein-freifall.com
Wed. 31.5. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Asher O’Gorman: Affor-Dances
INFO: ∆fforDances is a sculptural and textural score led by Asher O’Gorman that guides you into an intimate movement dialogue with so-called inanimate objects and materials, moving them from exhibits to vibrant partners. This class opens out the personal, relational, and metaphysical manner in which we engage with objects and each other. For this class Asher offers up a collection of various tactile materials/objects for the participants to work with.
(Bring along any materials/objects/sculptures you would be curious to move with).
All levels and disciplines welcomed
This session is also open to those who define themselves as visually impaired
ABOUT Asher O’Gorman Irish-British artist works as a dancer, maker and hosts workshops in various kaleidoscopic collaborative settings. Her work is a meeting of choreographic and visual art practices. She collaborates closely with raw materials drawing out their physical performative agency. Highlighting the tactile, visual, sensuous and existential nature of things to reveal the wonder of the “ordinary”; Thus challenging the hegemony of anthropocentrism. Asher has been a member of APL since 2021.
WEB: asherogorman.com
Wed. 7.6. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Anne Glassner: Arrive on Soil
ABOUT: Anne Glassner is a visual artist and performer. The theme of sleep has been a central point of her artistic work for some time now, which she expresses, amongst other ways, through “sleep performances“, in which she allows others to observe her sleeping in unusual places. In her works she blurs the boundaries between art and life as well as fiction and reality, and she raises questions concerning selfperception and external perception as well as the intersections of the private and the public.
https://www.instagram.com/anneglassner/
Wed. 14.6. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
APL Performance Studio
Timothy Nouzak: Dance and Movement: A Playful Journey towards Collective Growth and Learning
INFO: provide a unique and engaging environment for individuals to explore their physical and performative capabilities through dance and movement. Guided by playful movement scores, participants are encouraged to delve into the dynamics of various performative registers, both individually and collectively, in a supportive and non-judgmental environment. Join us on this shared journey towards growth and learning, as we “Fail Better” together.
ABOUT: Timothy is an Austrian-American choreographer, performer and maker and currently a member of the APL Working Group. His artistic work is framed within several communal movement practices, that explore how notions of collectivity can be rediscovered through means of collective listening and collective sensing.
WEB: https://timothynouzak.com/
Start the day with some performative action:
Every Wednesday Morning from 8:30-9:30 the APL now offers a Morning Practice with its members.
Get Tested and just come to our new Studio at alte P.S.K. (B.15 in front of Angewandte Teststrasse)
*Note: The current Angewandte Covid-regulations are valid – we will move with masks – and go outside if the weather allows. In case the lockdown restrictions will get tougher – classes will be moved online.
APRIL
WED.14.04.2021_8:30-9:30am_APL_MorningPractice:
Barbis Ruder – Pop-Meditation
Bewegungs-Meditation: Eine viertel-Stunde schütteln, eine viertel Stunde tanzen, dann sitzen, dann liegen. Let it all out – wir bewegen uns in vier Rhythmen und hören dazu Pop-Tunes. Juhu – Ein frischer Start in den Tag!
Barbis Ruder arbeitet mit dem Körper in Verbindung mit Raum, Objekt und Sound. Im darstellenden Bereich konzentriert sie sich auf Körper-Repräsentationen zwischen Selbstdarstellung und Selbst-Akzeptanz in Bezug zu Pop-Feminismen.
WED.21.04.2021_8:30-9:30am_APL_MorningPractice
Charlotta Ruth – Space Time Massage
Nach dem Durcharbeiten und Aufwärmen der Gelenke und Sehnen des Körpers auf der Basis von Tai Chi, gehen wir anschließend zu einer Selbst- und Raummassage über, bei der der Boden und der Körper buchstäblich durchgeknetet werden. Bewegungen werden gescrollt, “ge-scratched” und in der Zeit verhandelt. Nerdige Erkundungen, wie ihr euch bewegen und wie ihr an das Training herangehen wollt, sind willkommen!
Charlotta Ruth arbeitet und spielt mit Zeit und Wahrnehmung in der Choreografie, Game-Design und künstlerischer Forschung. Sie unterrichtet regelmäßig bei z.B. Tanzquartier, DOCH Stockholm University of the Arts, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Ruth studierte an der Royal Swedish Ballet School und machte einen MFA-Abschluß in Choreografie an der Stockholm University of the Arts. Ruth ist Doktorandin in künstlerischer Forschung an der Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien.
WED.28.04.2021_8:30-9:30am_APL_MorningPractice:
Daniel Aschwanden – Wake up program for body and mind
Analogue, sensitive, agile, balancing body and mind,
I counter stress in times of Covid – spatial limitaition, fears, weak health, lack of touch, isolation pressure to maintain high level of output with a type of fitness as a „fitness“ not mainly relying on muscular strenght, efficiency and concepts of its enhancement.
The morning practice consists of an extended self massage, offers elements of somatic bodyperception by means of guided improvisations, conscious adressing of selected body structures and systems, both via anatomical details as well as in their influences on personal movement patterns .Soft movementstructures adressing different body systems (sceleton, organs, muscles, etc. ) maintain and increase the physical agility. Self awareness in movement offers frames of time and space for contact with oneself, finding one´s own impulses between inner and outer space, will raise a sense of well being as well as the standards of physical and mental balance.
Daniel Aschwandens movement- and dance – biography includes a wide array of experiences starting out from movement based theatre ( Grotowsky based methods ) to Butoh Dance (working with Min Tanaka´s Mai Juku) to Contact Improvisation ( Mark Tompkins, Lisa Nelson, Nina Martin and others) . He was founder and director of Vienna´s Bilderwerfer project for dancers with and without special needs. He is continuously practising Tai Ji and is also influenced by bodywork like Feldenkrais, Reiki, Authentic Movement. Since 2019 he is a certified Somatic Movement Educator in the school of Body Mind Centering.
MAY
WED.05.05.2021_8:30-9:30am_APL_MorningPractice:
Charlotta Ruth – Space Time Massage
Nach dem Durcharbeiten und Aufwärmen der Gelenke und Sehnen des Körpers auf der Basis von Tai Chi, gehen wir anschließend zu einer Selbst- und Raummassage über, bei der der Boden und der Körper buchstäblich durchgeknetet werden. Bewegungen werden gescrollt, “ge-scratched” und in der Zeit verhandelt. Nerdige Erkundungen, wie ihr euch bewegen und wie ihr an das Training herangehen wollt, sind willkommen!
Charlotta Ruth arbeitet und spielt mit Zeit und Wahrnehmung in der Choreografie, Game-Design und künstlerischer Forschung. Sie unterrichtet regelmäßig bei z.B. Tanzquartier, DOCH Stockholm University of the Arts, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Ruth studierte an der Royal Swedish Ballet School und machte einen MFA-Abschluß in Choreografie an der Stockholm University of the Arts. Ruth ist Doktorandin in künstlerischer Forschung an der Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien.
WED.12.05.2021_8:30-9:30am_APL_MorningPractice:
Lucie Strecker – Sounding/Tönen
Sprechen wird unterstützt durch einen authentischen Stimmsitz. Der Stimmsitz bezeichnet die natürliche Stimmlage beim Sprechen. Von dort aus können Stimmmodulation, Stimmresonanz, Aussprache und Satzbetonung gestaltet werden.
Wir gehen daher in einfachen Übungen den Grundlagen des Sprech-Trainings nach. Dazu gehören Übungen zur Haltung,zum Atem und zur Körperspannung. Ebenfalls spüren wir unterschiedlichen Resonanzräumen im Körper und im Raum nach und erkunden Stück für Stück unseren Sprechapparat und die Kapazitäten unserer Sprechstimme.
WED.19.05.2021_8:30-9:30am_APL_MorningPractice:
Marie-Claude Poulin – Body-mind and the (in)visible
Introduction to a meditative mix of somatic visualization and physical practice awakening states of awareness, a preparation for the day and beyond. Embodiment exercises that stimulate sensitization to bodily systems and their connections to the immediate environment. Sensorimotor reinforcement based on the correspondences between fields of exploration of the body and those of space and objects, as (in)visible partners.
Marie-Claude Poulin is a transdisciplinary researcher, digital artist, choreographer and movement expert investigating bodily performance and new technologies. After performing with Meg Stuart and Benoît Lachambre in the 1990s, she co-founded the artistic company kondition pluriel in 2000 (www.konditionpluriel.org). Marie-Claude is Senior Artist at the Dept. of Digital Arts, where she teaches performance, as well as artistic researcher in the Dept. of Media Theory.
JUNE
WED.02.06.2021_8:30-9:30am_APL_MorningPractice:
Daniel Aschwanden – Wake up program for body and mind
Analogue, sensitive, agile, balancing body and mind,
I counter stress in times of Covid – spatial limitaition, fears, weak health, lack of touch, isolation pressure to maintain high level of output with a type of fitness as a „fitness“ not mainly relying on muscular strenght, efficiency and concepts of its enhancement.
The morning practice consists of an extended self massage, offers elements of somatic bodyperception by means of guided improvisations, conscious adressing of selected body structures and systems, both via anatomical details as well as in their influences on personal movement patterns .Soft movementstructures adressing different body systems (sceleton, organs, muscles, etc. ) maintain and increase the physical agility. Self awareness in movement offers frames of time and space for contact with oneself, finding one´s own impulses between inner and outer space, will raise a sense of well being as well as the standards of physical and mental balance.
Daniel Aschwandens movement- and dance – biography includes a wide array of experiences starting out from movement based theatre ( Grotowsky based methods ) to Butoh Dance (working with Min Tanaka´s Mai Juku) to Contact Improvisation ( Mark Tompkins, Lisa Nelson, Nina Martin and others) . He was founder and director of Vienna´s Bilderwerfer project for dancers with and without special needs. He is continuously practising Tai Ji and is also influenced by bodywork like Feldenkrais, Reiki, Authentic Movement. Since 2019 he is a certified Somatic Movement Educator in the school of Body Mind Centering.
WED.09.06.2021_8:30-9:30am_APL_MorningPractice:
Asher O’Gorman – GLISTEN
Is series of guided movement explorations to frame your day; be curious about your immediate material environment; heighten the senses; listen to and be in physical dialogue with human and material entities; encourage a tactile approach; see the potential of material things; supersede the limiting and destructive philosophy of anthropocentrism;
The class is inclusive
Asher O’Gorman is an Irish choreographer, performer and visual artist. Employing choreographic and compositional sensibilities, she creates performances that capture the physical interchange between human bodies and material entities and invite the audience to view the cosmos differently. Asher graduated from Dartington College of Arts, UK and Salzburg Academy of Dance (SEAD) in Choreography and Dance.
WED.16.06.2021_8:30-9:30am_APL_MorningPractice:
Mariella Greil – Somatic Delight – heads or tails?
What lies between head and tail? Opening up to perception and attuning to somatic explorations, as we wake up the senses through touch and sound. Probing gravity, momentum and surrender – as we start the day!
Was liegt im Dazwischen? Sich-Öffnen für die Wahrnehmung und Sich-Einstimmen auf somatische Erkundungen, nachdem wir die Sinne durch Berührung und Sound wecken. Eine Untersuchung von Schwerkraft, Momentum und Hingabe – zu Beginn des Tages!
Mariella Greil arbeitet im Feld von zeitgenössischer Performance. Ihr Arbeitsfokus liegt auf der Entwicklung eines erweiterten Begriffs von Choreographie. Sie beschäftigt sich mit Fragen rund um kompositorisch-somatische Werkzeuge, kreative Teilhabe und der Verflechtungen von künstlerischer Praxis mit gesellschaftlicher Transformation.